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Aug. 11, 1904. 



in regard to it, but I would rather hear from more expe- 

 rienced bee-keepers like yourself on the subject before I 

 give my opinion of it. Please explain this. 



Arkansas. 

 Answer. — I can only make a guess in the case, and that 

 is that they don't want the expense. If the boarders eat 

 just as much butter with honey as without it then the honey 

 is an extra expense. Another thing : When honey is not 

 put regularly on the table, but put on just as a rarity, very 

 likely a section melts away so rapidly that the boarding 

 house landlord thinks he never could stand it. If it were 

 on the table at every meal, they would hardly eat so much 

 at a time. If any one can give other light upon the sub- 

 ject, the place is open for it. 



Queen Matins After an After-Swarm- 

 Supers. 



Tiering Dp 



1. How many days is it from the time an after-swarm 

 is hived until the queen goes out to mate ? 



2. I notice by the bee-papers that a good many tier up 

 supers 4 and 5 high. Do you not think that makes it too 

 far for the bees to carry the honey ? How many would you 

 advise placing on at one time ? Nebraska. 



Answers. — 1. Henry Alley, the veteran queen-breeder, 

 says a queen never goes out to mate till 5 days old or older. 

 According to that, if she should go out with a swarm when 

 a day old, she might be expected to mate 4 or 5 days after 

 swarming. If held in the hive more than a day before 

 swarming, the time might be shorter. 



2. It depends upon the season and the colony. In a 

 poor season, one super may be enough, perhaps too much, 

 for the strongest colony. In a flush season a weak colony 

 may not need more than one super, and a strong colony 

 may need S or even more. No matter how far the bees may 

 have to carry the honey in the hive, they should not be 

 crowded for room to work in. For most colonies in a good 

 season, 3 or 4 supers at a time may be enough. Give enough 

 so the bees will not be crowded for room, whatever that 

 number of supers may be. 



Making a Place for a Queen-Yellow Matter at 

 Hive-Entrance. 



1. I had a colony that I supposed was queenless, so I 

 sent for a queen. On her arrival I made another search and 

 found a queen in that colony. What would you do under 

 such ciicumstances ? I took a frame of brood from each of 



two colonies, putting the queen with them. Then I put 

 about a quart of bees from another colonj- in with these, 

 and shut the hive up for 24 hours. They were all right un- 

 til this evening when the others began to rob them, and I 

 moved the hive. 



2. I find small drops in the entrance of the hive that 

 look like yellow matter. What is it 7 Iowa. 



Answers. — 1. Your plan of making a place for the 

 queen was all right. Perhaps a smaller entrance would 

 have helped to keep the robber-bees out. Moving the hive 

 to a new place might happen to work all right, but gener- 

 ally it would do more harm than good. It would lose to the 

 colony the field-bees, making it less strong to resist robbers. 



2. I don't know. If it was at the entrance of the hive 

 in which the bees were fastened, it might be the discharges 

 of the bees, for sometimes they discharge their feces at the 

 entrance of the hive upon being freed. If it was at the 

 other hives I don't know what it might be unless pellets of 

 pollen wet with rain or dew. 



Introducing New Blood. 



I am an amateur in bee-keeping, am a subscriber to the 

 most excellent American Bee Journal, and like it very 

 much. I started with one colony this spring, having lost 

 two large ones last winter, and have had two swarms, so 

 that now I have 3 colonies in good condition. I desire to 

 ask a few questions : 



1. The bee-keeper from whom I purchased has bred 

 them for 8 or 9 years, and never during that time intro- 

 duced any new blood. Do you not think it advisable to in- 

 troduce new queens in all three of my colonies ? Would it 

 not improve them ? They surely do not store what they 

 ought to. They are Italians. 



2. What time of year would you advise introducing the 

 queens, if at all ? Pennsylvania. 



Answers. — 1. If there are no other bees near you, the 

 likelihood is that your bees have suffered from close breed- 

 ing. But a queen and drone may meet when their respec- 

 tive colonies are two miles or more apart. So if there are 

 bees around you at no greater distance than that, there is 

 less danger. It would be a good plan in any case to get a 

 new queen for one of the colonies — hardly for each — and if 

 the new stock shows superior qualities you can easily breed 

 from that. 



2. There is probably no better time than August. 



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A Very Dry Summep. 



I had 6 colonies, spring count, and 

 will get from 200 to 300 sections of comb 

 honey from them, mostly from bass- 

 wood. I increased to 10 colonies. In 

 this immediate vicinity we have had a 



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